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 Translation for 'rafter' from English to Dutch
NOUN   a rafter | rafters
SYNO balk | baulk | rafter | ...
bouwk.
spant {het}
rafter
bouwk.
dakspant {het}
rafter
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Translation for 'rafter' from English to Dutch

rafter
spant {het}bouwk.

dakspant {het}bouwk.
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Usage Examples English
  • A knee rafter in carpentry is a bent rafter used to gain head room in an attic.
  • Rafter ties are designed to tie together the bottoms of opposing rafters on a roof, to resist the outward thrust where the roof meets the house ceiling and walls.
  • A rafter can be reinforced with a strut, principal purlin, collar beam, or, rarely, an auxiliary rafter (see below).
  • The side cut of the hip/valley rafter = (Tangent)(12) = side cut in inches.
  • The shield has a blue field and depicts an elevated golden rafter. On either side and in the middle are three black doves.

  • The film takes place in one village in which the store is robbed. A forest rafter admits a crime, but the young detective doubts it.
  • Średnia Krokiew ("The Normal Krokiew", in Polish "krokiew" means "rafter") is a ski jumping normal hill in Zakopane, Poland.
  • The second unusual thing about the truss is the upper collar, noted above as jointed and pegged to the principal rafter pair of the truss and repeated between the common rafter pairs within the remainder of the Phase 1 roof to carry a suspended plaster ceiling.
  • Dentil molding is commonly used to delineate the end of a rafter.
  • A stern-wheel rafter/packet named "Iowa" plied the Mississippi 1865–1900.

  • The shield is scarlet for Artillery. The white chevron representative of a rafter or support, with the shell, represents support of the line.
  • The depth of a rafter cut varies according to local building code differences in different locations.
  • If built using dimension-ed timber each rafter is usually jointed into the previous one.
  • The dragon beam lies parallel to and below a hip rafter and carries the rafter.
  • Another tradition relates to an artificial duck known as the Mallard, which should reside in the rafters of the Great Hall.

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